Washington School News Highlights Activities And Enrollment
Washington School in Chicago hosts evening public library hours on Wednesdays from 7 30 to 8 30. Eighth grade students start an airplane building class with an exhibit planned later. Enrollment stands at 240 with 118 boys and 122 girls. Boy Scout Troop 798 attends a football game September 26 at 1 00 PM after registering at Riverdale at 11 30. Athletics include softball touch football and soccer with several upcoming matches listed against Lincoln Franklin Bowen and Bowen schools.
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Washington School
Chicago
Scout Troop
South Shore Council
Chicago University - Lawrence
Riverdale
Washington
Waseball
South Holland
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Lincoln School
Boy Scouts
Dalton
Staggfield
138Th
Lincoln Avenue
Franklin
Frank Hair
John Wernicke
Henry Propper
Andrew Garry
Lorenz Ripley
Wm. L. Reaugh
Jack Hartman
Robert Hair
Lloyd Burke
George Kingsland
James Bagge
Franklin School
Lyle Klitzke
Chicago Heights
Bowen School Notes Report on trips and student activities
Bowen school notes describe plans for a field trip to the University of Chicago Children's Library requiring parent drivers and escorts. It covers Room II librarian Clement Jay, student projects like model airplanes, wigwam borders, nature study books, and gym activities. It also reports Lion and Tiger Party conventions for Achievement Club nominations and a patrol boys meeting led by Chief Frank Mraz with listed Bowen participants.
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University of Chicago
Bowen
Miss McCarron
Clement Jay
Clement
John Tourtellotte
Miss Hedtke
Betty Mills
Lion Party
Donald Engel
Tiger Party
Achievement Club
The
Lions
Robert Gallegos
Bernice Hence
Ruth Lane
Tigers
Walter Deichen
Calvin Dieckelman
Marilyn Newell
Bowen Achievement
Achievement
Frank Mraz
Patrol Boys
Washington
Riverdale Fire Chief Warns on Home and Heating Hazards
Fire Prevention Week runs October 4 to 10 as Riverdale Fire Department issues a list of home and heating hazards. Chief Edward A. Ripley notes 90 percent of yearly fires are preventable and urges inspections of living spaces to reduce risk.
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Riverdale Fire Department
Edward A. Ripley
Call Teachers as Watchers For Election
The Chicago High School Teachers Association appeals for volunteers to serve as poll watchers on election day. Executive secretary George E. Mahin says credentials will be supplied by the election board. Mahin notes teachers previously discussed as clerks and judges, but law bars government employees from serving on precinct election boards.
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Chicago High School Teachers’ Association
George E. Mahin
Election Board
Yom Kippur Begins Today In Chicago
The Day of Atonement starts today at sunup and ends at sunset tomorrow with fasting abstaining from food and work by about 300000 Jews across Chicago. Around 120 synagogues will host services and cantors while Shofar blasts resume the holy observance. A weekend touch football game with Washington is noted and school activities include harmonica practice and art chalk poster work.
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Chicago
Derand
Wallace Tourtellotte
Washington
Riverdale Park
Room IV
Boy Scout News from Troops 1 and 2 in Dolton
Troop 1 at Franklin School held its second meeting with temporary patrols led by Clarence Fike John Staat Earl Wise and Leendert Oudschoorn. Knot tying contest and drill events followed with Staat's patrol winning in 2 minutes 40 seconds and a tie in inter patrol drill.
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Boy Scout News
Dolton Boy Scouts
Franklin School
Clarence Fike
John Staaat
Earl Wise
Lendert Oudschoorn
John Staat
Leendert Oudschoorn
University of Chicago
Lawrence College
188Th Street
Leyden Avenue
Betty Ortel Hosts Card Party at Riverdale Home
Miss Betty Ortel of 18845 Wabash Avenue Riverdale entertained a number of friends at cards Tuesday evening September 22. Refreshments were served after the games.
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Betty Ortel
Wabash Ave
Riverdale
Watch His Smoke Young Pitcher Bob Feller Emerges
The Cleveland Indians recruit Bob Feller, a seventeen year old with a remarkably fast pitch. He already has pitched strong games and is the son of an Iowa rancher, signaling a rising big league prospect for next season.
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Bob Feller
Cleveland Indians
Bob
Iowa
Local and Personal notices in Riverdale and Dalton events
Local items report a Sept. 23 luncheon in Chicago hosted by Mrs. Peter Six. Miss Marie Diehl opens a Dalton studio at 600 Washington St offering ballet toe tap and acrobatics with spring revues. Riverdale Fire Dept. conducts a ladder drill under Chief Ripley. A sewage plant incineration project faces odors and storage lagoons prompting upgrades and public cooperation led by Acting Chief Engineer W A Trinkaus.
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Theodore Reich
Riverdale
George Bockelman
Dalton
Peter Six
Chicago
Marie Diehl
Hammond
Washington Street
Diehl
John Gertzen
Wentworth Ave
Ehud Shoop
Manhattan, Ill
Roscoe Dryer
Wimnington
Lloyd Greggs
Marion Matthiesen
Jennie O’conors
Kate McCarthy
Agnes Dreger
Clarinda Nelson
Lois Dreshall
St. Francis Hospital
P. X. Card Club
Loren Waddell
Forest Avenue
BE. Wheels, Jr
Pullman
Commodore
W. A. Trinkaus
Florida hurricane toll recalled on tenth anniversary
Ten years after the September 18 1926 hurricane in Florida the death toll reached 872 with many injured and homeless. The piece notes September waves from the West Indies and lists seven major recent hurricanes causing massive loss and property damage.
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Florida
West Indies
United States
Indies
Caribbean
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